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▪ I. incuse, a. and n.|ɪnˈkjuːz|
[ad. L. incūs-us, pa. pple. of incūdĕre: see incuse v.2 The n. use corresponds to F. incuse (1692 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A. adj. Hammered or stamped in: said of a figure or impression upon a coin or the like.
1818R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. (1876) 64 In the centre of an incuse square. 1825–7Hone Every-day Bk. II. 497 The carving is incuse. 1879Lubbock in 19th Cent. VI. 795 On the one side is an incuse square or punch mark. 1886Athenæum 27 Mar. 426/3 Mr. T. Jones communicated a paper on the rare didrachm with the owl on the obverse and incuse square diagonally divided on the reverse.
B. n. A figure stamped in; an impression in intaglio upon a coin, etc.
1818R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. (1876) 63 Antiquaries have supposed this incuse to be merely the impression of something put under the coin to make it receive the stroke of the die more steadily. 1868G. Stephens Runic Mon. II. 508 The incuse is visible on the back, and this is occasionally a great help when a particular rune has been injured on the front, for we can thus trace it more or less sharply on the other side, so leaflike is the metal. 1879H. Phillips Notes Coins 7 The head of Proserpine in an incuse surrounded by dolphins.
▪ II. † incuse, v.1 Obs. rare—0.
[ad. L. incūsāre to accuse, find fault with, f. in- (in-2) + causa occasion, cause, causārī to take occasion of, plead, debate: cf. accuse v.]
To accuse. So † incusation, accusation.
1570Levins Manip. 195/5 To incuse, incusare. 1623Cockeram, Incusation, blaming. 1658Phillips, Incusation, a blaming or accusing.
▪ III. incuse, v.2|ɪnˈkjuːz|
[f. L. incūs-, ppl. stem of incūd-ĕre to forge with the hammer, work on the anvil (incūs).]
trans. To impress by stamping; to mark with an impressed figure. Chiefly in pa. pple. (or ppl. adj.) inˈcused.
1864in Webster. 1876Humphreys Coin-Coll. Man. iv. 37 The reverse is incused with the impress of an amphora. 1879H. Phillips Addit. Notes Coins 13 There are specimens of Sybaris and Metapentum, in Magna Grecia, known as the incused coinage. |